Random Talk

[Uncle]

siliicon knights...weird ass company and somehow through pure chance I played a third of everything they released



fantasy empires is a lite D&D 4X game, more strictly war than civ, but really fun and with good art

and then also loved eternal darkness and the twin snakes

sounds like they were assholes and then got fucked

On July 19, 2007, Silicon Knights sued Epic Games for failure to "provide a working game engine", causing the Ontario-based game developer to "experience considerable losses."[12] The suit alleged that Epic Games was "sabotaging" Unreal Engine 3 licensees.

In August 2007, Epic Games counter-sued Silicon Knights, alleging the studio was aware when it signed on that certain features of Unreal Engine 3 were still in development and that components would continue to be developed and added as Epic completed work on Gears of War. Therefore, in a statement, Epic said that "SK knew when it committed to the licensing agreement that Unreal Engine 3 may not meet its requirements and may not be modified to meet them."[14] Additionally, the counter-suit claimed that Silicon Knights had "made unauthorized use of Epic's Licensed Technology" and had "infringed and otherwise violated Epic's intellectual property rights, including Epic's copyrighted works, trade secrets, know how and confidential information" by incorporating Unreal Engine 3 code into its own engine.[14]

On May 30, 2012, Epic Games prevailed against Silicon Knights' lawsuit, and won its counter-suit for $4.45 million on grounds of copyright infringement, misappropriation of trade secrets, and breach of contract,[5] an injury award that was later doubled due to prejudgment interest, attorneys' fees and costs.[17] Consistent with Epic's counterclaims, the presiding judge, James C. Dever III, stated that Silicon Knights had "deliberately and repeatedly copied thousands of lines of Epic Games' copyrighted code, and then attempted to conceal its wrongdoing by removing Epic Games' copyright notices and by disguising Epic Games' copyrighted code as Silicon Knights' own."[17] Evidence against Silicon Knights was "overwhelming", said Dever, as it not only copied functional code but also "non-functional, internal comments Epic Games' programmers had left for themselves."[17]

since the bankruptcy of silicon knights it seems denis dyack has been spinning his wheels in shit, accomplishing nothing, failing a kickstarter twice and trying to get a different game going that's still TBA